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Look Again: A Question of Perspective by Will Templeton

29th May - 1st November

It’s not easy to make a holiday of the walk to the station, to take the time to appreciate the beauty in the things we consider normal, to really explore the repetitive sights of our daily lives; it’s not always easy to really look, but it is possible.... 'Look Again' a new solo exhibition by Will Templeton, invites you to consider the way in which you view the world that surrounds you, with a beautiful collection of light installations, projections and photographic pieces. To arrange a viewing or to join us for the Private View on 29th, please RSVP to info@carousel-london.com.

Chefs' Hands by Joakim Blockström

“Most chefs go through a rocky road before achieving success. And even then, a professional kitchen is an extremely tough environment, both physically and mentally; and while famous chefs’ faces may appear on magazine covers, their hands often reveal a less glamorous story...”. Introducing a very special one-off exhibition from food photographer, Joakim Blockstrom, in aid of Pilot Light and its campaign to address the stigma around mental health in the restaurant industry. Each photograph featured will be accompanied by a quote completing the sentence that sparked the initial idea for the project: “If these hands could speak, the stories they would tell…”.

PREVIOUSLY

‘Taking the Stage’
Photography from John Haynes

1st September - 1st October

Featuring portraits of Samuel Beckett, Joe Orton, Allen Ginsberg and Maggie Smith, ‘Taking the Stage’ is a selection of John Haynes’ favourite work from his time as resident photographer at The Royal Court Theatre and his work elsewhere at the National Theatre, the Fringe, and London’s West End Stage. This wonderful peek in to the world of theatre will be on display throughout September at our newest event and gallery space Carousel Seven Dials but do join us for the ‘finissage’ on Friday 28th September for a view of the exhibition and an opportunity to speak to the man himself.

'Art for Freedom' A Crossmodalism Exhibition

Sunday 26th August

Join the pioneering, poly-sensory Crossmodalism community for a unique and inspirational exhibition dedicated to raising awareness of the fight against human trafficking and modern slavery. Introduced to survivors of himan trafficking by Mexican charities Sintrata (http://sintrata.org/) and Comisión Unidos Contra la Trata (http://comisionunidos.org/), artist, anthropologist and Crossmodalist Anya Vero aims to to raise awareness of the plight of these women and others like them through the medium of portraiture and the stories of the survivors themselves. The exhibition runs all day (11am-7pm) and includes a series of thought-provoking pluridisciplinary presentations and workshops (4pm-6pm) showcasing Crossmodalism’s signature synthesis of non-traditionally linked disciplines, ideas and communities. Entry to the exhibition is free, while tickets to the workshops can be purchased via the link below.

‘The District’ by Alexander James and BeTheGun

6th February - 25th May 2018

Introducing a new collaborative exhibition by London based artist Alexander James and award-winning photographer and filmmaker BeTheGun. Having spent years travelling between London and New York, the duo were inspired by the many interweaving districts that make up the city, with each borough serving as a form of protagonist. Street photography is revised and recreated by the pair, using a variety of mixed media including paint, mark making and collage. To arrange a viewing or if you would like to join us for the private view on Tuesday 6th February please email info@carousel-london.com.

'A Change in the Weather' by Matías Serra Delmar

29th September 2017 - 31st January 2018

Join us for an exhibition of bold and vibrant paintings from Matías Serra Delmar. Delmar's abstract works portray his experiences of different places and invite the viewer to contemplate what is seen through light, both natural and artificial. With a focus on colour and unveiling layers of light, he creates scenarios and moments that resonate with his audience - moments created by fleeting light. To arrange a viewing or if you would like to join us for the private view on Friday 29th September please email info@carousel-london.com.

'Across Time' by John Haynes

31st October 2017 - 2nd February 2018

Introducing ‘Across Time’, an exhibition of iconic pictures spanning acclaimed photographer John Haynes' remarkable career. Originally inspired by the work of legendary Henri Cartier-Bresson, Haynes' work has seen him exhibit across the world, and take up a 25-year-long career as photographer in residence at the Royal Court theatre. The collection includes a selection of Haynes’ portraits of playwright Samuel Beckett, as well as pieces from his private archives. Please email info@carousel-london.com. if you would like to arrange a viewing.

Charlie Dailey

1st August - 21st September 2017

We are proud to present celebrated photographer and camerawoman Charlie Dailey’s remarkable works in our Next Door space this summer. From beautiful shots of the Himba Tribes of Namibia and the big cats of Kenya to capturing the life of Havana and the quiet corners of Marrakech, this exhibition is a testament to Charlie’s passion for life, art and adventure. Viewings are by appointment only. To arrange a viewing or if you would like to join us for the private view on Wednesday 20th September please email info@carousel-london.com.

Marcel Darienzo presents “Fair Booth Trial”

5th May - 30th June 2017

Fair Booth Trial, curated by Marcel Darienzo, examines ideas of commodification in and of art. The exhibition presents works which take sales strategies of art as their subject, thus merging the poetic with the pragmatic. Visits to this exhibition are by appointment only. If you would like to visit the exhibition or join us for the private view on Friday 5th May, please email info@carousel-london.com.

Kick Off

5th May - 30th June 2017

Join us for an exhibition of new paintings from London-based artist Ben Edmunds. Bold and absorbing, these works take inspiration from the seductive nature of graphic commercial art and hard-edged abstraction in a move to question notions of irony and sincerity. If you would like to join us for the private view on Friday 5th May, please email info@carousel-london.com.

Araminta Blue

10th March - 27th April 2017

Araminta Blue is an early career artist, who graduated from The Ruskin School of Art in 2012 and Chelsea College of Art in 2009. She has since been based in London, where she has been exhibiting her work and creating installations in venues across the city. Araminta’s art pairs the familiar with the unfamiliar by placing domestic images in uncanny scenarios in order to present symbolic narratives. If you would like to join us for the private view on Monday 20th March, please email info@carousel-london.com.

Margaux Bonopera presents 'The Dose Makes the Poison'

16th March - 23rd April

This exhibition, which spans belief systems from Peru to Benin, explores notions of balance and equilibrium through different artistic interpretations. In the 16th century, the Swiss scholar Paracelsus developed the theory ‘Sola dosis facit venenum’ (the dose makes the poison), implying that it isn't a substance itself but dosage which dictates whether something is poisonous. The art will examine how different aspects of our reality approach this idea, and the exhibition will reveal how dosage can be a crucial tool in the organisation and imagination of any artistic composition. If you would like to join us for the private view on 15th March, please email info@carousel-london.com.

Elisabeth Del Prete presents 'Opening RIDE'

1st February - 12th March 2017

'Opening RIDE', curated by Elisabeth Del Prete, will feature works by 4 artists dealing directly and indirectly with notions of sequences, cycles and rotations. This gallery space is not only used as an art space but often hosts private events and workshops. 'Opening RIDE' asks what happens, then, to the art exhibition when unrelated events enter and infiltrate the gallery space? Can the exhibition rotate around a point other than its centre? .

Jo Kernon

3rd November 2016 - 28th February 2017

Jo Kernon is a painter working in East London. At Carousel she will be exhibiting a selection of abstract colour field paintings. Layering paint as she does builds the depth of perspective, offering dreamy landscapes while also occasionally being interrupted by structures of lines, drips and other forms.The private view will take place on Tuesday 3rd November. If you'd like to attend, please email info@carousel-london.com.

PayneShurvell presents 'Garage Door Paintings' by Andrew Curtis

27 September - 26 October 2016

Andrew Curtis produces images of suburban dissonance by blurring physical and psychological reality. Using our shared knowledge and preconceptions of suburbia, he questions contemporary notions of anomie, the abject and the exotic. For this new exhibition, Curtis presents six paintings in aluminium paint on raw canvas which refer 1:1 in scale and design to the subject of his photographs of garage doors which have been removed from their ‘frame’. He sees the way that garage doors are painted as echoing the intentions of mid-20th century abstract artists, whether minimal, expressive or optical.

‘These Colours Don’t Run’ by Alexander James

1st – 23rd September 2016

Carousel is pleased to present ‘These Colours Don’t Run’ an exhibition by Alexander James displaying his new works. Alexander is a multidisciplinary artist and his work consequently focuses on figurative and portraiture painting. In this latest project he explores abstraction, figuration and the character of motif. If you would like to join us for the Preview on 1st September, please email info@carousel-london.com

‘Meander’ by Henry Byrne and Oliver Durcan

1st – 26th August 2016

Carousel is pleased to bring together a selection of recent work by Henry Byrne and Oliver Durcan, in an exhibition comprising of paintings and sculptural paintings. Although there is no intentional collaboration, subjects of disregarded conditions, objects and documentary observation meander through both artists work. If you’d like to join us for the Preview on 17th August, please email info@carousel-london.com.

'Glimpses Of "The Island Of Serendipity" Sri Lanka' by Katie Daws

7th - 29th July 2016

Carousel is proud to present Katie Daws’ first solo painting exhibition: Finding solace and stimulus from the natural surroundings of Sri Lanka, Katie was inspired not only to relocate to the island from the clamour of London but also capture its beauty and essence on her travels with canvass, oils and easel. If you'd like to join us for the Preview on 7th July, please email info@carousel-london.com

'Symmetry's Portal' by Margarida Sardinha

2nd June - 1st July 2016

Carousel presents 'Symmetry's Portal', an exhibition of work by Margarida Sardinha focusing on the concepts of symmetry and optical illusion. A combination of three-dimensional photographic works and film inspired by the Alhambra, Margarida Sardinha explores the mathematical, metaphysical and cosmological principles of Islamic patterns. Please email info@carousel-london if you'd like to join us for the Private View on 2nd June 7pm.

Thatcher's Funeral by James O Jenkins

10th - 27th May

In 1984 James O Jenkins saw Margaret Thatcher being egged when she
visited his hometown of Porthcawl in South Wales at the height of the
miner’s strike. 29 years later Jenkins photographed the people who lined
the streets in London to witness Thatcher’s funeral cortege and found the
same divisiveness cast by Britain’s longest continuously serving Prime
Minister. Private View on 12th May 2016, 7pm.

Ana Milenkovic: Selected Paintings

6th April - 4th May 2016

We are pleased to announce Ana Milenkovic’s first London solo paintings show curated by PayneShurvell. Milenkovic works across a wide range of media to create art that evokes surprising, provoking and multi-layered meanings. In the open-ended scenes and narratives of her paintings, objects lose their integrity and turn into containers for encoded thoughts and symbols. Milenkovic combines randomly collected photographic collages to reveal their visual and emblematic character. In this show, these delicate paintings are the result of an extensive collection of these photographic images and an elaborate series of sketches. The Private View will be on Wednesday 6th April at 6pm.

Pet Rocks by Jacob Yarwood & Felix Treadwell

4th - 29th March

Carousel is pleased to present ‘Pet Rocks’, an exhibition of new works by Jacob Yarwood and Felix Treadwell. In this exhibition the artists approach and challenge the medium of painting through elements of self-meditative playfulness. The enigmatic characters of Treadwell’s paintings and the constructed still-life compositions in Yarwood’s work combine to reflect a perspective of their youthful generation, through distinctive methods of colour and form. Private view: 7pm Thursday 3rd March.

The Other Other Way by Natalie Ryde

9th - 27th February 2016

Carousel is pleased to present Natalie Ryde's solo exhibition 'The Other Other Way' supported by the GAS Gallery during the month of February - join us for the Preview on 11th Feb 6pm or drop in for a viewing by appointment. Natalie's beautiful drawings appear as abstract, meshed forms floating over the surface of the paper, sometimes tethered to the edges, often isolated and adrift. Definitely worth a visit.

‘Beneath the Surface’ by Louisa Jones

8th December - 29th January

‘Beneath the Surface’ is an etching colour study inspired by the natural world and her curiosity about what lies ‘beneath the surface’: energy, shapes, forms, colours and layers. In this exhibition, Louisa Jones explores the mysterious places that are beyond our visual plain.

Carol Seilern

23rd to 28th November

For one week only Caroline Seilern will be exhibiting her latest work featuring Zaina Al Hizami. After training for three years at Charles Cecil Studio in Florence, Caroline is now open for commissions across a variety of art forms from charcoal sketches to oil portraits.

‘My London and My Sao Paolo’
by Café Art

1st – 5th December

Carousel presents Café Art’s fantastic new exhibition ‘My London and My Sao Paolo’. Disposable cameras were handed out to people affected my homelessness in both London and Sao Paolo and participants were asked to take shots of their city. This is the result.

Made in Wales

9th – 20th November

Carousel welcomes the Welsh photography collective
A Fine Beginning who will be
showcasing their new exhibition ‘Made in Wales’ featuring work by its members; Abbie Trayler-Smith, Gawain Barnard and James O Jenkins as well as many other featured artists.
Private View on 12th November

Hannah Brown

30th September - 21st October

'Hannah Brown's paintings capture the brooding nature of English landscape.' Critic's Choice, Time Out.
Hannah Brown's landscapes focus on lesser known views: unseen corners of fields, small clearings, walking paths . Working within and against the omnipresent legacy of the English landscape tradition, her work centres on the psychology of the English landscape and how we interact with the natural environment and bring it into the domestic sphere.

Oleg Tolstoy

7th - 25th September 2015

"The bustle and energy of London nightlife hums through this photographic exhibition, capturing the troubled times caused by London’s rapidly changing economy and the rise of ride-sharing apps.The dark portraits of night drivers are permeated by a poignant reflective light. They are juxtaposed with semi abstract images of traffic and taxis and a sound-rich video installation."

Taline Temizian

5th to 28th August 2015

Taline is an artist born out of her personal & historic hardship. She works deep into the early hours of the morning constantly producing dream like epics often based on plays and old stories. Aside from being an international and London-represented artist, Taline is an all-round renaissance woman with many creative pursuits, none however as close to her heart as her painting.

Towels Blue

19th - 24th August 2015

There is an affinity between the way Christopher McSherry and John Robertson approach making art. Both very much studio-based, the artists' work shows a belief in letting the materials, the actual stuff of art-making, take the lead in the production of their objects. There is playfulness at work, a mobility. Things are made and moved around, arranged until something unexpected happens, some special quality emerges and the work becomes worthy of being called a work."

Tending to Infinity

11th - 24th July 2015

Tending to Infinity is a chance to view the recent work of Mahal de Man and Chloe Leaper, and additionally their on-going series of collaborative collages: The Pass; The Great Divide; The Interstellar Connection.

Something in the Attic presents Brooklyn

12th – 27th June 2015

This group exhibition presented by Something in the Attic explores the themes of perception and identity through 44 original works created by 14 artists: 7 Brooklyn-based and 7 London-based alongside a commissioned soundtrack.

The show aims to unite an existing community: the Brooklyn Collage Collective with a group of carefully selected London artists who range from a daytime postman to RCA graduates.

Lousie Cattrell: Another Place

15th April - 29th May 2015

The paintings of Louise Cattrell haunt the imagination with their mysterious beauty. They appear as timeless as the landscapes they depict, and yet somehow distinctly contemporary. Each work is as exquisitely painted as anything by JMW Turner, and seems to show a world that still looks just as it must have done in his day - the unchanging rocks, seas, hills and skies of the long ago past - but there is always another dimension to Cattrell's art. She is a romantic for the twenty-first century."Laura Cumming, Chief Art Critic, The Observer"

Urban Tales

6th March - 10th April

Three distinct artwork series explore visions of narrative based city redevelopments. As seen online and in print, RIBA Presidents Medal-winning work objectifies fiction and explores political positions in captivating threads of imagery.

Thomas Lumley

18th - 22nd November 2014

Influenced by film noir, Adam Curtis montages and the early 20th century art of Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, the distinct and emotive oil paintings of Thomas Lumley stand between portraiture, abstraction and landscape.